Container for liquids.



F. HOYLER & A. L. GARDNER.

CONTAINER FOR LIQUIDS. APPLICATION HLED'SEPT. I. 1914.

1 ,200,729. Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

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'ticularly for bleaching and cleaning.

an STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRITZ HOYLER AND ARTHUR L. GARDNER, OF PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN- ORS TO THE ROESSLER & HASSLAOHER CHEMICAL (30., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CONTAINER FOR LIQUIDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRITZ HOYLER and ARTHUR L. GARDNER, both citizens of the United States of America and both residents of Perth Amboy, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers for Liquids, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a container for liquids of the kind which decomposes giving off gases and in connection therewith it refers particularly to a container adapted to permit sufficient escape of gas to prevent an undue accumulation thereof which would otherwise cause severe leakages or even demolition of the container, which may happen if liquids of the kind referred to, as for instance hydrogen perozid, are stored in the same.

Hydrogen peroxid, for example, is a liquid used extensively for various purposes, par- Con siderable difficulty has been experienced hitherto, and indeed almost invariably, in that, after standing for a certain time, the container shows evidence of deterioration to such an extent as to finally defeat its purpose. These difiiculties are due largely to the property of hydrogen peroxid to decompose generating free oxygen gas, which readily accumulates, often exerting so much pressure on the inner surface of the container as to finally burst the same and open passageways through which the oxygen as well as the liquid escapes, thus causing considerable loss. By the present invention we have succeeded in overcoming the drawbacks of the present containers for such liquids by constructing the same so that the gas may escape from within in such quantity as to relieve the pressure, thus saving the container from demolition, preventing se vere leakages and the like defects.

For the better understanding of our invention we shall describe one illustrative embodiment of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through the container on the line AA of Fig. 3; Fig. 2 is a sectional view on an en larged scale of the plug detached; and Fig. 3 is a top view of the container.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

As shown in the drawings, the container comprises walls 1 of plain wood or of wood impregnated with an indifferent material, such as paraffin, or of glass, earthenware, porcelain or other suitable material not af fected by the contents; the top wall 2 is provided with a hole in which is inserted a plug 3 having a slightly downwardly tapered or cone-shaped perforation 4 therethrough, the upper part of which communicates with recess 5 in the plug. The plug is preferably made of wood, though of course it may be made of glass, earthenware, porcelain, etc., as the situation may require.

6 indicates a short piece of capillary tube which is supported from below by resting on the walls of the narrow, somewhat tapering or cone-shaped perforation 4 of the plug so as to make a gas tight joint therewith, the tube being held in place above by a stopper 7 adapted to fit into recess 5 and provided with a central perforation preferably tapering inwardly in an upward direction to re ceive the upper end of the tube 6.

I 8 indicates a hung through which the container may be charged or discharged.

It is obvious from the above description that by means of the capillary tube an exit is afforded which, though extremely fine in caliber, permits the gas to have suflicient passageway for escape so as to lessen the pressure within the container and avoid the drawbacks pointed out above. A safe method of transporting liquids like hydrogen peroxid is thus afforded together with a safe means of storing the same for a considerable length of time without taking the risk of severe leakage or of demolition due to the pressure of the gases formed increasing to such an extent as to reach the danger point.

For the protection of our device in the form shown, we fasten a protective strip 9 of wood or other suitable material, provided with a hole of suitable size, on top of wall 2 so that the hole will loosely embrace plug 3 leaving sufiicient space to allow access to the latter, the thickness of the strip being such as to protect the plug from accidental displacement or injury.

Though we propose to use the container, described above, chiefly for the transport of container to have walls of different material,

we may of course, as pointed out above, vary the material of the plug 3 accordingly. In some cases the plug 3 may even be dispensed with especially if the wall of the container is of such thickness as to correspond with that of the plug if used.

hat we claim is:

A container for liquids which decompose giving off gases including a wall of suitable material having an opening therein, a re cessed plug adapted to fit said opening and provided with a perforation tapering inwardly toward the bottom, a capillary tube of substantially uniform diameter supported vertically in said tapering perforation and a stopper adapted to fit in the recess of 2 specification in the presence of two sub- 25 scribing witnesses.

FRITZ HOYLER. ARTHUR L. GARDNER.

lVitnesses:

CATHERINE A. COSTELLO, O'r'ro K. ZWINGENBERGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for. five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

